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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:08:36 +0100
From:      "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   nameserver is very slow
Message-ID:  <002d01c1c00d$9ad14b80$6d05a8c0@neland.dk>

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Suddenly my nameserver won't resolve queries for domains it is not master for.
It can't even resolve the ?.root-servers.net, even when the servers are in the hints file (I tried making an error in the hints, and I got an error, so it reads it allright)

named -v
named 8.2.4-REL Fri Nov  2 03:06:03 CET 2001

dig gives querytimes of 8000 ms:
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.freebsd.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      www.freebsd.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.freebsd.com.        59m39s IN CNAME  www.freebsd.org.
www.freebsd.org.        59m39s IN CNAME  freefall.freebsd.org.
freefall.freebsd.org.   59m39s IN A     216.136.204.21

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
freebsd.org.            59m39s IN NS    ns2.iafrica.com.
freebsd.org.            59m39s IN NS    ns0.freebsd.org.
freebsd.org.            59m39s IN NS    ns1.root.com.
freebsd.org.            59m39s IN NS    ns1.iafrica.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns0.freebsd.org.        5m57s IN A      216.136.204.126
ns1.root.com.           1d10h54m58s IN A  209.102.106.178
ns1.iafrica.com.        5h46m32s IN A   196.7.0.139
ns2.iafrica.com.        5h46m32s IN A   196.7.142.133

;; Total query time: 8023 msec
;; FROM: ns.internet.dk to SERVER: default -- 194.19.140.1
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 28 04:59:34 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 33  rcvd: 250

The second time I try, I get the same slow results, so the nameserver isn't even caching the results.

From the nameserver, I can query other nameservers outside our net, with querytime of 24ms

 dig @193.162.240.5 www.freebsd.com

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @193.162.240.5 www.freebsd.com
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      www.freebsd.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.freebsd.com.        59m57s IN CNAME  www.freebsd.org.
www.freebsd.org.        59m57s IN CNAME  freefall.freebsd.org.
freefall.freebsd.org.   59m57s IN A     216.136.204.21

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
freebsd.org.            1d23h59m57s IN NS  NS2.IAFRICA.com.
freebsd.org.            1d23h59m57s IN NS  NS1.ROOT.com.
freebsd.org.            1d23h59m57s IN NS  NS1.IAFRICA.com.
freebsd.org.            1d23h59m57s IN NS  NS0.freebsd.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS2.IAFRICA.com.        1d19h9m28s IN A  196.7.142.133
NS1.ROOT.com.           1d23h59m57s IN A  209.102.106.178
NS1.IAFRICA.com.        1d19h5m IN A    196.7.0.139
NS0.freebsd.org.        1d23h59m57s IN A  216.136.204.126

;; Total query time: 24 msec
;; FROM: ns.internet.dk to SERVER: 193.162.240.5
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 28 05:01:35 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 33  rcvd: 250


This happens on both FreeBSD and Linux.

Where should i start to look?

Leif


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